2025 National Geographic Tango issue
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:08:41 -0300
From: Alberto Gesualdi <clambat2001@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: National Geographic Tango issue
Dear friends from Tango list
I have seen the material published on this magazine . The quality of photography is excellent as usual.
I wonder what kind of impression will have a person reading this article and looking the pictures of Buenos Aires , with all the local situation updated .
Both the writer of the article( a woman ) and the photographer( a man) took tango lessons while in Buenos Aires . It seems the woman was able to dance , according to her comments. And the man get lost in the middle of Nino bien floor, and begun dancing waltz with his tango teacher, while laughing nerviously, a complete disaster, in his own words. He also was kicked out from Centro Tasso, when trying to take photos of the milongueros and milongueras dancing their intimate social dance .
I did not know this last sunday that National Geographic was including a media/audio/video report on Tango.
I bought a book for my fiancei , from argentine writer Bioy Casares , a kind of sci fi book ( written in 1940) .
The name of the book is " La invencion de Morel / The Morel invention", and tells the story of a man that arrives to an island lost in the middle of the sea, to discover a complete community that dances , and have social activity as in a holiday resort . The intriguing fact is people appears and disappears , and when this man talks to them , as they say " they have eyes and ears, but it look as their eyes were not to see, and their ears were not listen".
Finally he peeps at a gathering of all the people and a lecture that Monsieur Morel makes to them , to explain that he has taken all of them to the island, to make his invention true. Morel explains his invention " The first part is the machine. The second one records. The third one projects". So Morel has invented a state of the art video machine, that records not only the images, but the sounds and smells of all this group, and projects it for ever , in random sequences, depending of the tides that enter the sea water into the island and activate the engines that start the machine to project one week of this people as they have been living .
Morel says finally " we are from now on , inmortal ., It doesn t matter how we live from now on , the true meaning of life have changed with my invention.Our projections will be inmortal into this island forever."
Maybe this National Geographic issue is a turn of the screw on Morel4s invention
Warm regards
Alberto Gesualdi
Buenos Aires
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:06:14 +0100
From: "Christian Lüthen" <christian.luethen@GMX.NET>
Subject: got thrown out of Tasso ...Re: National Geographic Tango issue
hola tango-L!
> the material published on this magazine . The quality of
> photography is excellent as usual.
> Both the writer of the article( a woman ) and the photographer( a man)
> took tango lessons while in Buenos Aires . It seems the woman was able to
> dance , according to her comments. And the man get lost in the middle of
Nino
> bien floor, and begun dancing waltz with his tango teacher, while laughing
> nerviously, a complete disaster, in his own words. He also was kicked out
> from Centro Tasso, when trying to take photos of the milongueros and
> milongueras dancing their intimate social dance .
surprising???
not at all!!!
any half way mind open tango tourist to buenos aires knows that you should
_not_ take pictures in milongas. and definitely should __not__ publish them!
allthough private picture taking from obviously tourists may be tolerated
taking pictures of the locals is not wanted at all. may local people still
perform a "trampa", go to dance with the excuse of doing something else ...
imagine someone who everyday walks the dog for 4 hours finally got seen on a
photograph dancing in a milonga!!!
actually when I saw the national geographic photo with all those ladies at
the tables wainting for a dancer I was shocked and terrified! did the
photographer got permission by each of them to be published? [I doubt it! :-( ]
I also took some photographs during my stay in Buenos Aires in march this
year. but none of them made it to my website yet! why not? I want to respect
the right of the local people to go to their prefered milonga. [I think it's
different situation with photographs taken during the town festival, i.e.
during the milonga on Avenida Corrientes. also I guess it's ok to show performers,
esp. during the festival season (feb.-march, festival de la ciudad, CITA
etc.) - but one may correct me on that issue.]
I think one has to be very careful in showing (recognizable) faces of
danceresses & dancers in buenos aires milongas. it's a different culture, and as a
guess one has to respect that!
christian
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:51:15 +0900
From: astrid <astrid@RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP>
Subject: Re: National Geographic Tango issue
Alberto wrote:
> I wonder what kind of impression will have a person reading this article
and looking the pictures of Buenos Aires , with all the local situation
updated .
I wonder too. Fortunately, the National Geographic December issue has
already made it's way into Tokyo bookshops, so I got the original. On one
hand, I hope, publishing this article will add some new nature, travel and
photography lovers to the tango world.
On the other hand, in spite of the beautiful photographs, and interesting
bits in the article, instructionwise the first observations of tango in Ba,
of Carlos Coppello and Alicia Monti teaching in a shopping mall, represents
the very worst, misleading introduction to tango one could possibly get.
Listen to this (page 40,41):
"The couples struggle to connect. One partner cannot move without the other,
but no word can be exchanged. Only the man's hand tells the woman where to
move, and the legs tell each other what to do, thigh to thigh.... They've
just figured out the coordination of the basic step, and now they are
circling counterclockwise in harmony around the floor."
Good luck, trying to learn to lead tango that way. Reminds me of my first
milonga experience in Germany, where some blonde German who was about 2
meters (6 feet 8 inches?) tall, asked unknown me to dance. He did not have
much of an axis, his lead was very vague, his chest was somewhere above my
forehead (I had been hoping to dance with men taller than the average
Japanese, and this is what I get !, I thought), and in my attempts to follow
him, I finally ended up trying to feel the movements of his thighs. But this
is not the way it is usually done...
On the other hand, I quite like the candid description of the female
journalist's first tango lesson:
"'it's an amourous embrace,' someone suggests unhelpfully from the
sidelines...
...Rather than becoming one with Lencioni, I feel as if I were turning into
a rather large ostrich in his arms.....
....eventually I begin to feel a connection with the music, a certain
surrender to the steps, a relaxing sense of floating along with my partner.
Lencioni brings me to a full, sharp stop. 'Get some personality in there !'
he scolds. 'Don't just moon about enjoying my dance !'
I think, dancing with that teacher for a first experience would have scared
me to death. I wonder, how you say "mooning about" in Argentina?
Astrid
